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Advocacy

The act of Pleading or arguing a case or a position; forceful persuasion.

advocacy

speaking for others. Previously restricted to aspects of the legal profession, various agencies now provide various advocacy services to assist individuals in other contexts.

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Technically, the mailings arguably are outside the parameters set forth by the New Hampshire attorney general, which state that public officeholders and their record are fair game for stealth political communications masked as issue advocacy. The only hitch?

Buying the State House? The fine line between electioneering and 'issue advocacy'

Any time issue advocacy mentions a candidate, there is a risk that it will be considered to be engaged in campaign intervention.

With election around the corner, charities must tread carefully

Finally, the term "issue advocacy" is also used when people talk about campaign finance law and policy.

Political ads: issue advocacy or campaign activity under the tax code?

(28) Given the Supreme Court's reliance in Citizens United on the proposition that the First Amendment has its fullest and most urgent application to speech uttered during a campaign for political office," (29) coupled with the assumption that the plaintiffs were free to engage in issue advocacy, that argument surely had merit.

Beyond Citizens United

"[Sham issue advocacy is] really just a thing to get around this restriction, that they can't expressly advocate," Keating says.

Court overturns donation limits for groups doing political work

Although the government would be permitted to regulate express advocacy in many circumstances, it was not permitted to regulate so-called "issue advocacy," which was speech that did not use express words such as "vote for" or "vote against." (37)

Citizens united and the battle for free speech in America

the Court's treatment of expenditures for issue advocacy announced

The lonely death of public campaign financing

His primary fields of grantmaking expertise include issue advocacy, public policy, public interest law and journalism, community development and advocacy, the arts, and academic social science and humanities disciplines.

Note from the editor

GC: I am the president of a public affairs and issue advocacy firm, based in D.C., called Thomas Circle Strategies.

An interview with Guy Cecil: an interview with Guy Cecil, a former TSA national officer [who was the national political director for Hillary Clinton's campaign for president], on CTE, CTSOs and advocacy

When they do, they tend to practice what Pielke terms "stealth issue advocacy," the presentation of personal opinions in the guise of scientific neutrality, to the detriment of both science's reputation and the production of effective policies.

Scientizing Politics

He criticizes the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for "stealth issue advocacy"; that is, for sneaking into its analysis assumptions that point to policy recommendations, while pretending to offer only purely scientific observations.

Can science policy advice be disinterested?

Simply stated, "Framing The Future" should be considered mandatory reading for every political activist, candidate for political office, and social issue advocacy group in the country.